Media Advisory

26 January 2023

Minister Naledi Pandor to deliver the Keynote Address at the annual Kgoshi Mampuru II Commemoration

The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, will deliver a keynote address at the Annual Kgoshi Mampuru II Commemoration event on Saturday, 28 January 2023.

Kgoshi Mampuru II, was the brave King of the Bapedi people, who was hanged on 22 November 1883 for refusing to recognise the then Republic Government.

In 2012 and 2013, the democratic Government of South Africa renamed the Pretoria Central Prison and the Potgieter Street after Kgoshi Mampuru II.

The commemoration will take place as follows:

Venue: Sekwati Sports Grounds, Mamone, Limpopo

Date: Saturday, 28 January 2023

Time: 09h00

Media are invited.

ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION

OR Tambo Building

460 Soutpansberg Road

Rietondale

Pretoria

0084